Blogs and Cell Phones in Nazi Germany

What people seem to forget when they think about Nazi Germany is how desperately hopeless the Germans felt during this time period. From the treaty of Versailles with its enormous reparations demanded of Germany as well as the depression that was hitting the entire world, the German people began looking for someone whose promises led them to a better place.

1932. Blog Post. The Nazi Party.

"It good to know someone is finally trying to do something for us. Enough of this capitalism; the crash of last year clearly shows its failures. Us Germans need someone to stick up for us and our country [rise of nationalist sentiment]. Enough with communism, it isn't doing nothing for us pure-blood hard working Germans. The Nazi party promises an elimination of unemployment- this is what we need. But we can't do it with all these Jews and others invading our homeland. Something must be done. "

Hitler's power grew stronger and stronger from this point. He wiped out all who went against him, took control of the armies, and created a centralized government. In the following years, millions of Germans were killed or imprisoned due to political reasons.

1937. Blog Post.
"My neighbors just up and disappeared. We hear it was because they didn't support the Fuhrer. Almost all the Jews that had businesses around here are gone. The Gestapo is everywhere. I am all about the new regime, but I am a little scared as to how far they are taking things. I see people being taken all of the time, and they never return. They were good people, too. The other day, I heard my cousin say that someone was shot in the street. Good thing this is anonymous, because just what I have said so far might land me in the same place they are. Hail Hitler!"

As the concentration camps get fuller and fuller, the soldiers with phones, and not necessarily supportive of what they are doing, are able to take pictures of the atrocities they witness (before they are killed, I suppose.) Nonetheless, they are able to capture the trains and trucks filled to the brim with "non-aryans" and those who committed treason; those who burn bodies and throw babies in the air for some "fun" skeet shooting. I am sure, however, that once sent, these soldiers send their pictures that they would undoubtedly be killed if discovered.

1940.Blog Post. Soldier.
"I can't take this anymore. I believed all of his promises, I pledged my allegiance, but this? We are ruthlessly killing men, women, and children. Babies! Babies being burned in ditches. Bodies piled up behind the camp by the hundreds. Just rotting there- too many to go into the crematorium yet. If I resist, I will be right there with them. My family, too. The amount of people I have seen ruthlessly shot in the head, among other things. People who were once my friends have gone mad by this behavior and have become sick killing machines. The people I once knew are no longer in these bodies. I have had to do horrible things too, but I have never liked it like some of these soldiers seem to. I hope that I can stay strong until this is over. But I feel that I am slipping... I can't take the violence, the brutality any longer. I must go now, people are coming.. "

If I were to think about this event happening with the use of phones and blogs, etc., I would like to believe that the rest of the world would have known what was going on sooner, and therefore capable of stepping in earlier, or at least the countries who were invaded would have been able to better arm themselves. However, if the common man had these technologies, that would mean that the Nazi Party would probably have them too, only better.

How would you think the Nazi Party would have combated the public's use of technology?